"Shit..." Hank murmured while rubbing his bearded chin as the three studied the body and Collins nodded.

     "Exactly."

     "What the fuck happened?" Hank asked.

     "Well, we don't know much, but from what we can assume with what we have, the boyfriend beat this guy to death. We're still unsure why though but we arrested the boyfriend for interrogation and processing. It looked like the android tried to fight back because the guy had a bruise on his cheek." Collins informed.

     "What about the girlfriend?" Hank asked as Connor walked over to the body before kneeling down beside it.

     "We took her to the station as well for questioning and to patch her up, when police arrived she was in hysteria and really hurt. Arrested the bastard before he could hurt her even more or worse." Collins said, "Cut and bruised, the kitchen is a mess right now so we can only assume that he tossed her around in there."

     "He's a real piece of work, isn't he?" Hank sighed with a shake of his head as Collins sighed as well.

     "My thoughts exactly, poor girl having to put up with a piece of shit like that." He said before walking outside to talk to investigators as Connor reached two fingers down to dip into the blue blood and putting it up to his lips. Hank sees this and groans.

     "Oh god, Connor, what did I say about you doing that?" Hank asked as Connir paused and looked at Hank, "Don't put the evidence in your mouth." Hank said sternly as Connor only stared, his LED turning yellow as the light swirled a bit as he thought.

△「REASON WITH HANK」
○「LISTEN TO HANK」

     His LED turned back to blue, "But, Lieutenant," Connor started, "If I don't taste the evidence then I won't be able to work as efficiently without any additional information that could help us." He said and is about to lick the blood off his two fingers.

     "Don't do it, Connor." Hank warned, making Connor pause once more as his LED swirled in yellow again.

□「TASTE EVIDENCE」
○「DON'T TASTE EVIDENCE」

      Connor went ahead and licked the blue blood off his fingers while looking at Hank, who groaned in disgust and raised his arms up in defeat, "Damnit, Connor." He said with a shake of his head. His software pops up with information about the android.

「THIRIUM 310」

     Hank walked over to his partner with his arms crossed, "So? What do you got, Dracula?" He asked in his gruff voice as Connor analyzed the android's face and LED.

「ANDROID MODEL: AP700, Serial #407 002 017; NAME: Matthew; PRODUCED AND MANUFACTURED: 02/03/2039」

     "He is a AP700 model, his serial number is 407 002 017. His name was Matthew." Connor informed as he analyzed the damage, "He appears to have been attacked repeatedly with a blunt object, critically damaging his chest plate and abdomen." He said as he reconstructed the scene as the android figure was going backwards in time from when he was getting beat to death to struggling before he stood back up and raised his arms to block something. Connor sees the figure of the attacker brought his arms down and walked backwards and put something back. Connor then fast forwarded the scene as the attacker was menacingly approaching the android and picking up something that was leaned against the wall, and raising it up as the android raised his own arms to try and block before the attacker swung down. Beating the android to death once it was on the ground before standing up straight and tossing the weapon to the side. Connor comes back to reality and sees a metal baseball bat covered in thirium in which he identified to be Mattthew's.

「THE ATTACKER USED A METAL BAT 」

     Connor stood back up, "Matthew tried to block the boyfriend's attacks before the boyfriend used that metal bat to beat him to death with it."

     "And Collins said that it out up a fight seconds before he got killed. But why though." Hank murmured while rubbing his chin in thought.

     "Well, it seems like the android's head is still intact, we might be able to get something out of him if I bring him back to us for a short moment." Connor said while looking at Hank.

     "Like that thing you did to the dead Traci back the Eden Club last year?"

     Connor nodded, "Correct. But it all depends on how badly damaged his internal wiring is and how long he'll be alive for before shutting down." He said while kneeling back down and exposing the android's stomach, he reached his hand down where his skin disappeared to press down on the body's stomach, making the androids skin around the abdominal area disappear. The stomach plate was critically damaged and cracked as Connor carefully opened it and connected two thick blue wires together. The android springs to life, his LED turning red as he gasped and breathed heavily. He moved away from Connor in a frenzied panic as Connor raised his hands. "Hey, it's okay. We're not here to hurt you." His software popped up with a timer that began to count down.

「TIME REMAINING UNTIL ANDROID'S SHUT DOWN: 1 MINUTE AND 30 SECONDS」

     They had to act quickly and get as much information as possible, "What do you guys want?" Matthew asked, his eyes wide with fear and panic.

□「RELATIONSHIP」
○「HOUSE LIFE」
×「FIGHTING BACK」
△「ROLE」

     "What are you doing here? What is your role here?" Connor asked quickly.

「TIME REMAINING UNTIL ANDROID'S SHUT DOWN: 1 MINUTE AND 23 SECONDS」

    "I was the housekeeper. I did the chores and helped cook dinner for Alex and (Y/n)." Matthew answered, knowing he had to be quick with his answers as well.

□「WHO?」『🔓』
○「RELATIONSHIP」
×「HOUSE LIFE」
△「FIGHTING BACK」

     "Who are Alex and (Y/n)?" Connor asked.

     "My owners."

「TIME REMAINING UNTIL ANDROID'S SHUT DOWN: 1 MINUTE AND 10 SECONDS」

○「RELATIONSHIP」
×「HOUSE LIFE」
△「FIGHTING BACK」

      "What was your relationship with them?"

      "Alex despised me, hated me since day one and treated me like an object despite us having human and android equality now. But (Y/n), she was so kind to me. Treated me like I was human. She's the reason why chose to stay instead of leave."

○「HOUSE LIFE」
×「FIGHTING BACK」

     "What was house life like with them?"

     "With that man, it was hell." Matthew answered shakily, "Alex has a Red Ice drug addiction so he's very violent. He treated me terribly, but he treated (Y/n) way worse. He beat her all the time because he's so short tempered. Everything (Y/n) did to try and make Alex happy wasn't enough, it never was. For months I had to watch him physically and verbally abuse her while all I could do was watch helplessly. She cried and cried, was scared to break things off with him in fear of being hurt again."

「TIME REMAINING UNTIL ANDROID'S SHUT DOWN: 53 SECONDS」

○「FIGHTING BACK」

     "You put up a fight against Alex before he beat you to death with a bat. Why?" Connor asked as Matthew grit his teeth and his hands clenched into fists.

     "Because I had enough of Alex's abuse towards (Y/n). He started freaking out at her because she asked him how his day was and because of the drugs, he just snapped and started yelling and beating her. He took it too far through today because he started throwing the glass cups at her and punching her. She was about to die, and I couldn't do anything about it. It made me feel useless and... And angry. So before he could punch her again, I got in front of her and after I refused his orders. He started beating me and I tried to fight back. (Y/n) called the police when he started beating me with the bat and I shut down seconds after."

     "So you fought back to protect her?"

     "Of course, she deserves so much better. She doesn't deserve a life with that monster. I'm willing to sacrifice myself if it means that she'll get a chance to run away." Matthew said with his brows furrowed together in determination.

「TIME REMAINING UNTIL ANDROID'S SHUT DOWN: 15 SECONDS」

     Matthew then perked up with a look of worry and hope on his face, his LED turned yellow, "Is she okay? Please tell me she's okay now and the police took that piece of trash away." Connor looked at him in the eyes and nodded.

     "Yes, she's alive and at the station to be questioned." Connor reassured as a relieved smile came across Matthew's face, LED turning blue as he nodded before looking back up at Connor and Hank.

「TIME REMAINING UNTIL ANDROID'S SHUT DOWN: 10 SECONDS」

     "What're your names?" He asked as the partners looked at each other and back at Matthew quickly.

     "My name is Connor and that's Detective Lieutenant Hank Anderson."

「TIME REMAINING UNTIL ANDROID'S SHUT DOWN: 8 SECONDS」

     "Promise me, Connor and Leiutenant, promise me that you'll protect her at all costs as my dying wish." Matthew said as Connor's LED turned yellow.

△「DON'T PROMISE」
○「PROMISE」

     Connor's LED turned back to blue, "I promise, Matthew. We'll make sure no harm comes to her." Connor promised with a determined face.

「TIME REMAINING UNTIL ANDROID'S SHUT DOWN: 5 SECONDS」

     Matthew smiled softly and grasped Connor's shoulder in appreciation, "Thank yooouuu-" Matthew shut down before he could finish, the android left frozen in place with a grateful smile and hand grasping Connor's shoulder. Connor stared at Matthew with a somewhat surprised expression at the promise he made, LED turning yellow as he wondered if that was a good idea. Hank can only smile softly, feeling proud of Connor as he patted Connor's other shoulder.

     "Don't worry, you made a good choice, kid." He said as Connor looked up at Hank to see that the usually grumpy man was smiling down at him. Connor relished in the feeling he's felt on every successful investigation as he smiled softly back at his friend and stood back up. Pride.